Eph 5:3-4 3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for the Lord's people. 4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.

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Do not fight with one another over my banning. I've enjoyed the time I have spent with all of you, but the time really has come for me to leave. It is what I want.

Timothy McVeigh was a Christian right? In case you forgot, he was responsible for blowing up a federal building, killing nearly two hundred people. Does that make it acceptable by Christian standards?

Gotta agree with these two - the actions of people who claim to be members of a religion are not necessarily the standard by which that religion judges what is sinful/morally wrong. In the case of Christianity, as jmfcst points out, the Bible sets the standards.

Nah, not even the definition of legality. It's the definition of morality to many of us secular folk. The law is perfectly happy to sit idly by while you smoke and drink yourself to death with dependent children. On the same token, it's happy to allow parents to do virtually anything short of beat their children to death, without legal intervention. That ain't legality.

Nah, not even the definition of legality. It's the definition of morality to many of us secular folk. The law is perfectly happy to sit idly by while you smoke and drink yourself to death with independent children. On the same token, it's happy to allow parents to do virtually anything short of beat their children to death without legal intervention. That ain't legality.

in your case, beatings are understandable

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Do not fight with one another over my banning. I've enjoyed the time I have spent with all of you, but the time really has come for me to leave. It is what I want.

Nah, not even the definition of legality. It's the definition of morality to many of us secular folk. The law is perfectly happy to sit idly by while you smoke and drink yourself to death with independent children. On the same token, it's happy to allow parents to do virtually anything short of beat their children to death without legal intervention. That ain't legality.

The real question is this: Is it the state's duty to enforce laws against sin?

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"348. The rest of the party appreciates it if I don't start the game in Cyberpsychosis.""I will kill 120,000 people" ~ Barack ObamaThe United States is not only the world's first suburban nation, but it will also be its last. The world cannot sustain any more economies like ours. - Kenneth T. Jackson

After his parents' divorce, McVeigh lived with his father; his sisters moved to Florida with their mother. He and his father were devout Roman Catholics who often attended daily Mass. In a recorded interview with Time Magazine[3] McVeigh professed his belief in "a God", although he said he had "sort of lost touch with" Catholicism and "never really picked it [back] up". The Guardian reported that McVeigh wrote a letter claiming to be an agnostic.[4] He was given a Catholic ritual before his execution.

“They cheated us again and again, made decisions behind our back, presenting us with completed facts. That’s the way it was with the expansion of NATO in the East, with the deployment of military infrastructure at our borders. They always told us the same thing: 'Well, this doesn't concern you.'" -Vladimir Putin

Nah, not even the definition of legality. It's the definition of morality to many of us secular folk. The law is perfectly happy to sit idly by while you smoke and drink yourself to death with independent children. On the same token, it's happy to allow parents to do virtually anything short of beat their children to death without legal intervention. That ain't legality.